Infrastructure for a New Discipline of Educational Computing

The purpose of the Benedum grant was to allow Carnegie Mellon to develop the infrastructure needed to bring discipline and leadership to the growing area of educational computing. As computer technology advances at a rapid rate and its promise for improving education both tantalizes and confounds us, it becomes imperative that dedicated centers be created to track and tame the technology, centers of knowledge for realizing the promise and avoiding the pitfalls of advancing technology, development centers for implementing the most promising applications of the technology for education.